The 20-7 Spartans faced a knotty little draw in the East Region, starting with, oh no, Eastern Michigan and, oh really, no, Princeton.
President Obama faces a knotty decision in whether to approve the much-delayed Keystone oil pipeline: a choice between alienating environmental advocates who overwhelmingly supported his candidacy or causing a deep and perhaps lasting rift with Canada.
"Defiance," however, is more than just the sum of its influences, and what it does well are things that any good cop, medical or legal show does well: The Syfy drama efficiently lays out the characters' individual and group concerns as it depicts them facing a series of knotty risks and challenges.
When faced with a knotty problem, an overwritten sentence, or indeed a spiky piece of driftwood – I do my best to humbel it.
They say questions are met with robotic replies read from scripts, while operatives faced with a knotty problem frequently hasten to pass it on to someone else, as Allardice discovered.
The first-time gardener faces a number of knotty choices.
First-time gardeners also face a number of other knotty choices.
It recognizes that officers face an incredible range of knotty problems and that the law is but one means for engaging them.
This week, the "Idol" kids faced an even taller order: the deep, knotty catalog of rock-and-roll animal Lou Reed.
James Brown of the Museum of Broadcast Communications said it "explore[d] a knotty issue facing media people in contemporary society, focusing on how investigating and reporting those issues impact on the layers of personalities populating a complex newspaper publishing company".
